Published April 2, 2014
By Appo Jabarian
USA Armenian Life No 1410
In an article on March 31 titled “Armenians are awakening to the truth: Turkey and NATO are behind the ethnic cleansing in Latakia and Kessab” Christof nsnbc.com Lehman wrote that “Turkey has regularly facilitated the 
entry terrorist groups in the region Kessab Syrian province of Latakia. A member of the Armenian parliament who visited Syria made a call to the world to become aware of the fact that thousands of extremists have crossed the Turkish-Syrian border and that missiles were fired on the Turkish side of the border. Armenians, who have long considered NATO as an ally and partner realize that the war in Syria, the new ethnic cleansing of Armenian Christians in Syria including part of a long-term strategy of NATO. ”
Mr. Lehman also reported: “The Turkish Parliament Mehmet Ali Ediboglu, visited the border post Yayladagi after severe clashes that occurred in the region on March 21. Ediboglu stated that the Turkish army authorizes and controls the movement of insurgents who come and go across the border with Syria in both directions. After a Turkish F-16s have shot down a Syrian fighter over Kessab last week nsnbc.com spoke with an eyewitness to Kessab, who reported the presence of the Turkish special forces on Syrian territory in cooperation with terrorist brigades supported by the Turks. ”
Residents in Kessab call all Armenians and all humanity to realize that the Erdogan government is behind the military campaign, ethnic cleansing and massacres. Armenian parliamentary Arman Sahakian and residents Kessab call upon the UN and the governments of other countries to take measures to protect the population of the province of Latakia before it is too late.
In an emotional message transmitted by the Armenian Parliament, the people of Kessab made the call: “All we want is to live. If you do nothing, the terrorists will get us all suffer a horrible death, they will kill us in cold blood like many other Armenians in Aleppo, Yaakoubiyeh, Ghnaymiyeh and throughout Syria. Those you call … “rebels” are extremists from engaging in jihad with Syria among them many nationalities such as Afghans, Chechens, Saudis, etc.. The people of Kessab and throughout Syria have seen and have been attacked and killed by them. The media can not hide the truth forever. We can not play forever with people’s lives. Those you call “rebels” took targeting civilians and attacked. Wake up please. ”
Mr. Lehman said: “The Armenians, who have long regarded as a NATO ally and partner, realize the harsh reality that influential member states of NATO, including Turkey, the USA, the United Kingdom and France, are responsible for having designed this war in Syria, planned long before the first signs of 2011 … The city of Kessab is now in the hands of foreign fighters. The Syrian Arab Army launched a military campaign to dislodge the mercenaries, which is complicated by the presence of Turkish F-16 fighters over the area and the Turkish special forces fighting alongside foreign fighters and leading their artillery, missiles and tanks against the positions of the Syrian army. ”
He concluded: “The U.S. State Department said he was worried about the population of Kessab Latakia in Syria and everywhere where people suffer from violence. At the same time, the U.S. supply-air missiles and anti-tank insurgents and holds a common structure with intelligence and command squads of mercenaries. ”
“I want the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar as totally responsible for atrocities against Christians and Armenians in Syria, because they are the ones that cause, arm and support the so-called ‘rebels’. The civilized world must reject the killers acting under the guise of regime change to impose their radical power in Syria. The Syrian people deserve a democratic government; I fear, however, that the foreign fighters who have infiltrated Syria are much more barbarous than the Assad regime. I think that regime change should result in peaceful negotiations, not by beheadings and suicide bombings “Harut Sassounian said today, publisher of the California Courier in a written statement published in a Turkish newspaper.
Far from repenting for the Armenian Genocide, Turkey, under the leadership of Prime Minister Erdogan, takes more time to target Armenians, once again causing their death and displacement wrote frontpagemag.com.
“Armenians must once again go into exile because of the Turkish government, like their ancestors who fled the Armenian Genocide there for decades. No mention was made on the BBC support that NATO openly of Al-Qaeda groups. The attack took place in the wake of mass protests against Prime Minister Erdogan, who recently banned Twitter, wrote Mimi Al Laham Land Destroyer Report.
“The Armenian Christians fleeing again aggression Turkey and the silence of Western, quick to denounce the violations of international law by the Russian Federation, is not surprising. Certainly, the NATO member Turkey is allowed to occupy Northern Cyprus, hunting Orthodox Christians and settle on the conquered lands; to enter into northern Iraq to attack the Kurds when it suits the elites in Ankara; Turkey and NATO is authorized to be a basis for international jihadists and an area for supplying arms to terrorists, cult members and mercenaries fighting against the Syrian government. Recently undertaken by Turkey in the ethnic cleansing of Christian Armenians in northern Syria appears as a long continuation of past misdeeds, “recently wrote Ramazan Khalidov and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times.
Towards the end of 2012, when the foreign ministers of NATO gave their green light for the deployment of Patriot surface to air missiles in Turkey under the pretext of “protecting against spillage of civil war in Syria neighbor “, they probably knew that the invasion of Kessab Turkey was imminent – awaiting only the right time. There is no doubt that Turkey is inseparable from the pure and simple conspiracy against Syria. Missiles were transported latest technology in Turkey, on the border with Syria. There would also be some reports on coordination of rebel organizations who fought the Syrian government and from Turkey and other countries in the region “has recently emphasized Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Pan-African Newswire.
From NATO, which joined Turkey in the early 1950s, this is a deliberate policy. USA, who founded NATO and coordinating its activities widely, lobbied all members [NATO] to adopt a hostile attitude against Syria. If opposed to the war forces had not manifested to his international community, war against Syria would have gone much further, said Azikiwe.
According to information published in www.lragir.am March 29, Turkey paid 5,000 dollars for every Armenian killed in Syria. An Armenian survivor of Syria said: “Turkey conducts Aleppo everything that contributes to a second genocide. One day I went to Aleppo, accompanied by another person, in order to look for food and fuel. We were warned that it had to do with self identity documents of Christian Arabs and Muslim Arabs. We found a Christian Arab who looked vaguely, and I took her identity. Our car was stopped and checked several times by the rebels on the road to villages around Aleppo. They asked me if there were soldiers in the vehicle or the Armenians. We of course said there was none. As they asked us several times we asked them why. One of the rebels said that Turkey had promised to pay 1000 dollars for every soldier of the Syrian army killed and 5,000 dollars for each shot Armenia “.
This survivor Armenian Syria continued: “Armenian district is being targeted by snipers … The rebels seek Armenian districts. That maintaining hope is the fact that the Armenians remained united regardless of their affiliation to face these difficult times. Armenians abroad send money and food … Half of Aleppo Armenians fled the country … hoping to return when all this is over. Most of them prefer to stay, considering themselves at home in Syria, and will not abandon their homes no matter what. ”
Dissatisfied with the results obtained by the undisclosed policy of Turkey to sow death and destruction in Syria, NATO and its allies, especially Turkey, released their “projects” for the Syrian people in general, and more recently Specifically, for the Armenians of Syria.
It is now a fact that Kessab, one of the last medieval Armenian cities of the Mediterranean, is illegally occupied by Turkish agents in Syria.
Whatever denials Ankara, those of the first Ottoman Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan and his whimsical Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, evidence abounds. We are no longer in the years 1915-1923. There are now a variety of means of communication and electronic documentation. The Erdogan government has de facto subjected Turkey to a recent wave of civil lawsuits arising from acts of violence and crimes against humanity committed by terrorists came from a Turkish border.
Through unity of Armenians in Syria, thanks to their self-defense squads and their neighborhood well organized districts of Aleppo – Nor Kyugh (in Armenian, New Village), Suleymanié, Vilaner Sheik Taha and where they lived alongside Arab and Muslims as Christians, are still protected from the intrusion of foreign terrorists making the area a modern arena for the success of the Pan-Arab Nationalism Syrian.
From what we know about what happens to Kessab, however, no self-defense mechanism was established there. Nobody is informed. Some observers believe that the leaders of Syria and Kessab might think that the Armenian city could be an exception. Why do they think that? Armenians and other Syrians Kessab could serve as an example for Arab nationalist districts Syrian invincible other districts.
Many Armenian activists think in a sense, the debacle and disaster Kessab awakened minds of Armenians in the world and the U.S. in particular. With the power of Prime Minister Erdogan attracted by the Muslim Brotherhood, the invasion by proxy Kessab has already angered a large fraction of the international community.
It should be noted that while most Americans expressed strongly suggests that the U.S. should honor its obligations to defend its NATO allies for a possible Russian threat, it is unlikely they say some particular nations in NATO worth fighting, according to a recent survey (end of March) Huffington Post / You Gov. The study shows that only 20 to 29 percent are favorable to the defense of Turkey. It’s embarrassing for the neoconservatives going to war and the friends of Turks in Washington.
Kessab but will not be released by the mere sympathy. It will take determination and sacrifice on the part of all affected parties, especially the Armenians of the world. Demonstrations and petitions can help release the Armenian town of Kessab (Kasab) if they are not accompanied by concerted effort. It is high time that the Armenians joined the action to the word by sending funds as they are concerned.
How Armenians, transnational community can they convince the U.S. State Department, and that going to war as Adam Schiff Representative of the 28th District of California are sincere in their ‘conviction’ of the barbarity of Turks Kessab when in fact secretly under wraps, they finance, arm and train Islamic terrorists in Turkey and facilitate their invasion of Syria via Turkey?
Armenians should not underestimate their transnational status resigning himself to the role of protest or making only react; they must instead emerge as a proactive force to be reckoned with. It is time that the Armenians take a more decisive for the effective defense of their similar today Kessab political role; and perhaps elsewhere tomorrow. No Armenian should be delivered only to his fate. It is time that the Armenians taking on board and apply the rallying cry – ‘all for one, one for all.
Whatever the force that is attacking Armenians should be held responsible priori. They should not stick to the punishment of crimes once they are committed. They should identify the perpetrators before they commit another crime against humanity. Do you remember those who voted yes and who said no during the Artsakh war?
When the Syrian crisis erupted and escalated into a truly international terrorist invasion four years ago, not a single Armenian organization is recognized for providing one day Kessab be the target of a replica of the genocidal policy of the Turkish state.
Gilbert Béguian translation Armenews.com